People could have filaments projecting that would connect to those dots, and you could think each other’s thoughts. There would have to be a network in the air that you could connect your neurons to. You couldn’t go around with your head actually connected to other people, but you could have a neuron connected – something that was microscopic. When I have an idea that I want to put into a story, I like to have some kind of plausibility woven into it. I was really big into Bigfoot, aliens, everything – I ate all of that stuff up. I grew up loving all kinds of paranormal reported phenomena. When I read that article, I thought it would be a good basis for telepathy, the idea that the brains were physically connected. The first thing was a news story about these conjoined twins who could think each other’s thoughts. “A lot of things brought the Wormwood Trilogy together for me. Thompson’s latest novel, space opera Far from the Light of Heaven, is out this month. The trilogy as a whole was nominated for a Hugo Award for best series in 2020. Dick Award nominee The Rosewater Redemption (2019).

The series also includes BSFA Award finalist The Rosewater Insurrection (2019) and Philip K. Clarke Award winner Rosewater (2016) launched the Wormwood series, and was also a finalist for a BSFA Award, a Kitschies Award, and was first runner-up for the Campbell Memorial Award. His debut novel was Kitschies Award winner Making Wolf (2015). Some of his short work is collected in Household Gods and Other Narrative Offences (2020). “The Apologists” (2016) was a BSFA nominee, and “Yard Dog” (2018) was a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award nominee. Novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne (2017) and sequel The Survival of Molly Southbourne (2019) were nominated for British Fantasy Awards and British Science Fiction Association Awards the first was also a Shirley Jackson Award finalist. He sold his first semi-pro SF story in 2005, and has published over 25 pieces since then. He has been a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 2007. Thompson’s qualifications include medicine, psychiatry, and social anthropology, though he flirted with Industrial Chemistry in 1988. He traveled a lot as a child due to his parents’ separation and his father’s work as a lawyer (some of which was behind the Iron Curtain). TADE THOMPSON was born in South London in the 1970s.

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